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Update: Corrected phone number for ordering tickets Koinonia helps locals who need it most. By David Leone WAKE FOREST — There was a time in America when townspeople helped with charitable causes by soliciting donations for a local community chest. Those organizations gave way to...

By Clellie Allen ROLESVILLE — Town commissioners capped months of staff and attorney work, community forums and slogging through tedious wording and definitions to update the town’s sign ordinance, passing the revision unanimously Monday night. But the action didn’t happen...

Franklin/bypass intersection “putting people at risk,” planning board members say. By David Leone WAKE FOREST — During quasi-judicial public hearings, board members are required to accept only statements of fact by qualified parties. But no one questioned the validity of a...

WAKE FOREST — Tonight (Thursday) through Saturday at 7 p.m., the Wake Forest High School Theatre Department presents The Hobbit, dramatized by award-winning playwright Patricia Gray and approved by author J.R.R. Tolkien himself. The play features the adventures of hobbit Bilbo...

In a recurring feature, The Wake Weekly looks back at what happened this week throughout the years. 1834 •Sixteen young men have enrolled to attend the Wake Forest Institute, located on a small farm in the Forest of Wake purchased from Calvin Jones. The Institute is funded by the...